Tipton News

Struggling California dairy farmers will get a small reprieve beginning January with temporary price adjustment in the minimum price of milk, approved by the California Department of Food and Agriculture on Dec.

As owner of the Compassionate Cannabis Information Center in Goshen, Tammy Murray is at the center of a county fight to rein in distribution of medical marijuana.

Before Thursday the medical marijuana cooperative in Tipton - Earth Meds - operated without regulation by Tulare County.

Growing up in Tipton, Mary Ann Perry-Felemi was not an outgoing child. But she learned from a young age that, even if you're not in the spotlight, volunteering and helping your community in small ways can make you feel good about yourself.

An ordinance adopted this week by the Tulare County Board of Supervisors will change how medical marijuana is distributed in unincorporated areas.

A vote today by the Tulare County Supervisors will send sheriff's deputies to organizations that distribute medical marijuana in the county's unincorporated areas to see if they should be closed.

The Community of Tipton will host its seventh annual recognition banquet at 6 p.m. Saturday at Tipton S.P.D.E.S. Hall, 250 South Evans Rd., Tipton.

This night of music, dance and film, headlined by Japanese rock band Shonen Knife, sounds wild.

Tulare County sheriff's deputies arrested a male juvenile suspected of scratching graffiti into two vehicles in the Tipton area Sunday night.

Two unidentified Tulare youths were injured in a shooting reported late Sunday. The 16-year-olds, whose names were withheld because they are minors, were taken to Tulare Regional Medical Center.

Tulare County sheriff's deputies arrested a male juvenile suspected of causing $500 worth of damage to two vehicles with graffiti on Sunday night, according to a sheriff's report.

A Tulare County Sheriff's deputy was assaulted early this morning in Tipton by a man being questioned in a auto burglary investigation.

The Central Valley's seven-month rainy season is off to a powerful start, with the first storm dropping nearly 1.5 inches of rain at Visalia Municipal Airport on Tuesday and flooding several streets.

Tulare County Sheriff's detectives say sometime Sunday, while the Carbajal family was at Mass, someone or some group, broke into their Tipton home.

Almost a year to the day after 76-year-old Shirley Bowles was shot to death in her Tipton home, final arguments were made today in the trial of her 13-year-old grandson, charged with the murder.

Two unknown armed suspects reportedly carjacked Tipton resident Leonel Castro, 23, on Sunday.

The trial of 13-year-old Baylor Bowles, accused of fatally shooting his grandmother last year in their Tipton home, will begin Monday.

When the amount of surface water diminishes, either because of drought-shrunken rivers or reductions in allotments from the California Aqueduct or the Friant-Kern Canal, the demand on groundwater increases.

California Cotton Harvested Acreage Punished by competition, high costs, the worldwide economic crisis and severe water shortages in key growing regions, California cotton acreage has dropped to its lowest level in generations.

Mr. and Mrs. Greg and Renee Hart of Visalia, CA. announce the marriage of their daughter Sarah Elizabeth Hart to Matthew Allen Rick on June 13th, 2009 held at The Hart Family Ranch in Visalia, CA.